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Dr Rajiv Sood

Paediatrics

Specialises in

Paediatric immunology, infectious diseases & allergy

About me

Dr Sood has been a Consultant Paediatrician since 1998. He has over thirty years of clinical experience. He has worked in several international hospitals. He has trained in the UK in tertiary paediatric units based in the university teaching hospitals. He has received training in neonatal intensive care (level 3), paediatric intensive care (PICU), neurology, respiratory and asthma, gastroenterology, endocrinology, diabetes, ambulatory paediatrics, allergy, developmental paediatrics, community paediatrics and general paediatrics.

He specialises in general paediatrics in all aspects of children’s health and development, urgent medical problems, allergy, immunotherapy and food challenges. He supports allergy nurse specialist clinics, does in-patient ward rounds and manages acute activity in the paediatric A&E.

Dr Sood holds general paediatrics and allergy clinics. He deals with food, nuts, skin, respiratory and drug allergies. He also undertakes open food challenges under medical supervision and arranges epi-pen injection (adrenaline) and Basic Life Support (BLS) training for families. He does immunotherapy clinics for allergies not responding to conventional treatments e.g. grass pollen, tree pollen and house dust mite allergy.

Current NHS consultant posts held

Research interests

He has extensive involvement in research, and has investigated asthma preventing effect of grass pollen sublingual immunotherapy and long term versus standard prednisolone therapy for the childhood nephrotic syndrome.

Additional training

GMC registration

Reference number 4063164

Details of entry to specialist register

Specialist Paediatric Register , 1998

Affiliations / memberships

Certificate of completion of Specialist Training (CCST)
Fellow Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (FRCPCH)
Fellow Royal College of Physicians (FRCP)
Member British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI)
World Allergy Organization (WAO)
British Medical Association
Advanced Paediatric Life Support Provider

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